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Dec. 5th, 2001
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(forwarded from a Star Trek list)
Dear Fellow writers,
It has recently come to my attention that there now exists Harry
Potter Slash Fiction.ÿ
As you know,I too write an occassional piece of adult slash fiction
and believe that in fiction concerning adult characters in adult
situations where there is mutual consent this is fine as long as
disclaimers for the website is prominent and clear.ÿ As in...If you
are under 18 skiddaddle.
However, under a search in Yahoo for "Harry Potter Fan Fiction"
Many of the sites contain no such warnings.ÿ Many of the situations
are children having sex with children, along with adults having sex
with children along with bondage and violence and abuse and suicide.ÿ
These are very dark themes complete with graphic art.ÿ And as I said
before...there are absolutely no warnings on more than one site.ÿ
Some have " This is a slash site" on them.ÿ However, I want you to
think of the age of the children cruising these sites.ÿ I was 39
years old before I knew what slash was when applied as a label to
fiction.
Harry Potter was a series devoted to children audiences.ÿ Hollywood
has put together a movie for family audiences.ÿ And the commercial
hype is aimed right at children.ÿ
A simple search popped up more than six web sites with slash on
them.ÿ The people searching for these sites would be predominantly
children.ÿ Harry Potter Fiction is not going to be banned as a search
parameter for a family filter.ÿ
I'm asking you as fellow writers not to let this sort of fan fiction
go on.ÿ This is pediphilia...not slash fiction.ÿ
I am requesting that each of you write a letter to the editor of a
major newspaper in your area or to J.K. Rowling or both or the
producers to the movie to inform them of this intollerable situation
by Dec 18th.ÿ
Several Star Trek lists are doing this.ÿ If you believe in the vision
of Gene Rodenberry, you can not sit idly by and let this kind of
predation occur.ÿ He believed in the best of mankind.ÿ That we would
get to the point where there would be no more war, hunger, or abuse.ÿ
Help him continue the fight to stamp out this particular form of
child abuse.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Catherine Kay
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Several reaction to this which just cracked me up! I could kiss those people! hahaha
< This is pediphilia ...not slash fiction. >
pedi- refers to foot. It's a Latin root.
So we're essentially not writing slash, we're writing stories concerning
unnatural lust for... feet. And foot-shaped objects. My, the strange
strange connotations of Harry Potter slashed.
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Recently in the UK an 'angry mob' smashed up the house
of a pediatrician, who had a brass plaque outside her
house detailing what she did for a living. As she ran
her business form home.
Therefore
(a) They did not know the difference between a
pediatrician and a pedophile
(b) They actually thought someone who abuses children
would have a plaque outside their house saying so.
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What a strange strange world...
All right!
Dec. 5th, 2001 05:39 pm...
Yeah right!
Hahahhaa!!! *off to procrastinate some more*
'nother article on Snapeypooh...
Dec. 5th, 2001 05:51 pmSeverus Snape, Love God
'Harry Potter' potions master finds an infatuated following on the Web
by Neva Chonin, special to SF Gate
Tuesday, December 4, 2001
©2001 SF Gate
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/chonin/
"Hurry up, Pothead," Professor Snape hissed, circling him like a vulture
above a dying animal. "Do what I told you to do. Now." "Yes, sir," he said,
bending over until he was eye level with Snape's leather boots. -- A
certain young wizard meets his master in "Happy Pothead and
the Fornicating Phoenix."
Two years ago I interviewed J.K. Rowling and discovered, to my delight, that
Harry Potter's authorial mom was a punk-rock fan from back in the day. We
spent a half-hour sitting in a hotel restaurant eating toast and drooling
over Joe Strummer and other scrappy icons of the '70s. (I think we were
supposed to be discussing wizardry and its discontents. So sue me.)
Sharing crushes is fun. If I ever interview her again, I'll have to tell
Rowling about my recent and infinitely madder infatuation with one of her
own characters, Severus Snape -- the sardonic potions master at Hogwarts
School For Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's a tough thing for an adult to admit, being all
crushed out on a fictional wizard, even with Alan Rickman -- oh, fey
delectability! -- filling his cinematic black shoes and adding an edge to
the fluffy screen adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
Fortunately, I have plenty of company. A quick search on Google and Yahoo!
shows there are thousands of Snape acolytes out there gushing over Hogwarts'
dark 'n' scary love god. The Web site for "The Fire
Works: Ode to the Furious One," for instance, overflows with posts to a
message board called the Society for Admirers of Severus Snape (SASS), all
of them dissecting the finer points of the master's delicious nastiness.
How to describe his appeal? He's like Trent Reznor embellished with a
melodious British accent, a heap of magic potions and a Victorian wardrobe.
He's a droll badass. He loathes children (especially Harry). He lives in a
dungeon. Let's face it: As Syrena, webmistress of Severus Snape's Slytherin Society
-- home of a rabid Snape-discussion forum and some fabulous graphics --
points out, he's just plain hot.
"I love men in black robes," she writes in an e-mail, "and I love the
imagery of Snape swooping about the Hogwarts halls like a bat, bearing down
on any students that may be out of bed after hours. His long, greasy hair,
hawklike nose and glittering black eyes only complement the image."
The Sexy, Sensual,
Seductive Severus Snape Society also sums up the Greasy One's appeal
nicely in its "Sexy Severus Snape Sorting Hat Song": "You can keep your
Sirius Black / Your Lupin sleek and tall / For he's the sexiest Master / And
he can top them all."
If his fans are passionately vocal, so is the fictional character they adore
-- and just about every other character from the "Harry Potter" series. The
Net is alive with the sound of moaning from the mouths of Snape, Harry and
the rest of the Hogwarts crew, thanks to slashy fan fictions presenting them
in intriguing combinations such as Harry/Ron, Harry/Ron/Hermione, Headmaster
Dumbledore/anything he can get and Snape/whoever strikes his fancy.
Pieces of Potter erotica (or is it Potterotica?) limning the sex lives of
Hogwarts wizards and witches -- straight, gay or a bit of both -- are
proliferating like mushrooms in a dungeon, most of them creatively
fast-forwarded to a time when all parties are safely over the age of
consent. (This hasn't prevented them from coming under the disapproving
scrutiny of Warner Bros. lawyers, however, according to a recent article in the Chronicle.
Just in case the Muggles Ministry of Censorship is watching, I would like to
point out that my beloved Snape is of legal age. And he has prompted some whopping doses of Potterotica. The results often
alternate between inspiration and hilarity. A shining sample of the latter
can be found in Rune Scriptor's parody, "Happy Pothead and the Fornicating
Phoenix":
Master Snape stretched leisurely, like a cat just finished with a nap,
and ran his hands along his tight, ass-hugging black leather pants. His
long-sleeved shirt billowed in the wind of his students' lusty sighs. With a
cord of thin leather, he tied back his oily hair in a ponytail, his gestures
smooth and suggestive; several more students fainted.
J.K. Rowling would probably faint, too. After all, if she can appreciate the
charms of the Clash's crater-mouthed lead singer, she should be capable of
wallowing in the wiles of a sleek Gothic greasebomb. Yo, Jo, next time the
toast is on me. We have to talk. Meanwhile, picture a dungeon. A master. A
pupil. Visualize a little punk transgression. Children's literature just
doesn't get better than this:
"Excellent," Snape said in a whisper. He bent slowly and inserted his
slender fingers into the mouth of his leather boot. His eyes on Happy, he
straightened, drawing out a silver-handled whip. "If you move," he whispered
in Happy's right ear, "I will whip you." Happy stood there motionless for a
moment longer. Then, deliberately, with a smile pulling at the corners of
his mouth, he raised his hand.
Neva Chonin writes about music and culture and technology and stuff for the San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone and other publications.
LOL at caption of Sev-pic:
"Severus Snape, Love God / 'Harry Potter' potions master finds an infatuated following on the Web.
The Object Of Desire: The greasy one himself, Severus Snape, as played by Alan Rickman in the film version of 'Harry Potter.' "
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The last note has faded away
The audience has gone home.
And it's like - nothing ever happened at all!
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You said, "The day I'll die you'll all raise a big cheer for me." I'm sorry you were right.
Fuck it. Not gonna add to its hit count. *pout*
And it really bugs me that my copy of "Harlan's Race" is so bruised and beaten. I consider buying it again... but $15 seems so much right now... T_T What can I do???
